Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-10-20
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

DrluSe, IN 1914, ana the III st printed
almanac appeared in London about one
hundred years later.
The following items were included
in the bill of Melbourne lawyer: ITO
fifteen days study of the works Of
Charles Dickens, w. NJ. Thackeray and
Mark Twain, hunting for paragraphs
rejecting on unnamed individuals. in
view of the probability that libel action .
might have been brought against othe
authors, fifty guineas.''
"A young Cuban about TO be mar
ried, being jokingly told by an Ameri-
can friend: ''Well, kiss her for me.5'
remarked. as he started to see his
senorita: THAT is something have
never been able to do for myself,
though we have been sweethearts for
six years and engaged for three. and l
have never seen her alone yet.
The Appalachian club, of Bangor.
Me-, has placed on the summit of
Mount Katahdin n cone of Furnished
tin twenty inches in height and twelve
in diameter, in order to note the dis
lance from which the peak can be seen.
1t is expected that the cone will reflect
the sun rays far over Maine and enable
observers to determine the question.
"A negro living near Lexington, Ga,
gave an account the other day of q
remarkable rainfall. He said that it
Grained hard 'nough on half of the top
of my house to run off, but t'other side
wasn't hardly wet Twas a good
shower, enough to run in my front
yard and for some distance in front of
the house. but it didn't lay the dust in
de back yard"
Dave Aubrey, of Americas, Ga,
says that he found live chicken on his
place last week that had foot on each
side near the wing. 1t had no thigh,
no leg, but a foot. When the httles
fellow would try to walk it would get
on one foot, paw the air on the top
with the other foot, and ''peep, peep"
in note that was doleful to hear. 1t
lived two days and half and died fers
| want of exercise.
"A curious fact in natural history is
noted in the fisheries report for Eng
land and Wales. A pike was captured
last year on the ''run" at Christ
church which had audaciously vt
tempted to stuff itself with a salmon
weighing ten and half pounds. There
must have been a severe struggle to
overpower the victim, and the pike had
succeeded to n certain extent, but had
choked itself in the effort-Bost0H
Transcript.
-Siias johnson, of East Dougherty,
Ga, put bagging in the screw box of
the cotton press, preparatory to pack
ing bale of cotton, and while he went
for the loose cotton an old hen, which
had been laying in the box, got into it
Silas came with the cotton and piled it
in on her and packed the bale without
discovering the accident until after il
was rolled out. He brought it into the
warehouse and it was weighed, hen
and all. The fiattened frame of the
compressed chicken was cut out and
the bale sold.
Jack Smith. of Eustis. Lake, Fla,
has a roam hen which possesses great
ingenuity. The coop has small slid
ing door, working like guillotine. 1t
is very heavy and during the daytime
is held up by a peg. The other day the
hen discovered chicken snake lying in
the coop, its head projecting about an
inch beyond the line where the door
would fall Creeping quietly up, the
hen pulled out the peg, and down CAME
the door, pinning the snake to the
ground, She then pecked its eyes out
and killed it.
An unusually intelligent New
foundland dog is owned by Mr.. Batter.
ham, of Asheville, n. G. Mr.. Batter
ham says that after her four pups had
| To- hnc
one away. and a few days afterward,
pointing to another pup, said, with
some emphasis: Tomorrow l am GO
ing to give that one to Mr.. Blank"
The mother seemed to listen with at
tention, and the next morning she was
missing with the doomed brat. leaving
the other two puppies to take care ST
themselves. After nightfall she skunk
back very silly with the pup in her
mouth, and seemed happy in having
saved it from separation from its
family.
"A man at Fort Mcdowell, A. T.,
found a hollow stone three and one
half inches in diameter. On breaking
it he found frogs skeleton Shortly
afterward he found some birds carry
ing mud to cliff and depositing it in
holes that they had dug in the side of
the cliff. He went TO the top OF the
cliff and climbed down to one of the
holes, expecting to find the nest OF the
peculiar bird, but instead he found a
globular stone containing decayed
lizard. He found thousands of insects
entombed alive in the banks Why
they put the animals in the balls is
mystery, for after the mud dries it 80
hard that it requires considerable force